TTA Input Plug-In for Beep Media Player
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Version 1.2, (c) 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.

* About Beep Media Player

Beep Media Player is a media player for the X Window System that
supports Winamp skins and that has a sophisticated plugin system
that allows for easy extension of its abilities. Beep Media Player
is able to deal with all common types of media files.

For more information please visit a Beep Media Player homepage
http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/BMP_Homepage

* Introduction

This Beep Media Player plug-in is a part of the TTA audio compressor
which performs lossless compression on multichannel 8,16,24 integer
and 32-bit IEEE floating-point data of the wav audio files.
Being "lossless" means that no data/quality is lost in the
compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to
the original.

At now, mostly all of the popular lossless compressors gives a same
compression results (difference about 1-3%). TTA is a hardware-
oriented format. It means that the TTA format has a reasonable
compression level, but WAS NOT developed to show a top results in
comparisons. TTA format supports both of ID3v1/v2 tags. Detailed
format description is available at http://www.true-audio.com

* Configuration

1. Copy the file libtta.so out of your Beep Media Player input
   plugins directory (usually ${INSTALL_PATH}/bmp/Input).
2. Start Beep Media Player.
3. Play TTA files and enjoy highest quality sound.

* Requirements

Nice sound card and good speakers.

* Developers

  Alexander Djourik <sasha@iszf.irk.ru>
  Pavel Zhilin <pzh@iszf.irk.ru>

* Copying

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
MA  02111-1307 USA

Please see the file COPYING in this directory for full copyright
information.

* See also

Please visit the TTA homepage at http://www.true-audio.com for the
latest in news and downloads.

